At least it wasn’t hummus.

Our loyal readers who also surf political blogs have probably noticed the flap over Dijongate, wherein reality descends madly into satire as the blogsphere ponders the political meaning of Obama’s decision to order Dijon mustard on a hamburger (and whether the media hushed it up to make him seem like a regular Joe!) Anxious to do our part, we at EoTAW have discovered the real reason Obama ordered spicy Dijon rather than regular yellow mustard:

French? Classic? Mustard?

Obviously, yellow mustard has long been a sleeper agent in the culture war.

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You crazy. Or were you talking about the the city? Because I haven’t been there.

It’s hard to feel any sympathy for William A. Jacobson, who indeed should not have been jumped on (if indeed he was) for a silly, throw-away post, when he then reads some obvious sarcasm from the Huff-Po as if it were meant straight.

Also, hummus is a fabulous thing, but seems like a mistake for a burger. I’d go with a tahini dressing or maybe a nice baba ghanouj.

It’s also available at Subway. Which is what’s particularly amusing about the cultural-markers nonsense; recently, nearly everything that’s been held up as unbelievably elitist has been something that is widely available in chain supermarkets.

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The Left is just keeping this ‘Mustard story’ alive, the Right had a chuckle and moved on. There are many much more important things to criticize this administration about. The Left doesn’t want people focusing on the big stuff, because that’s where it’s most dangerous to them. The Truth will bring them down, God willing.
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absurd thought –
God of the Universe says
deify your dear leaders

Like the Right, we should really be focusing on serious, important issues like how Miss California’s finishing second in the Miss USA pageant was a violation of her free speech rights or how closing Gitmo will vastly increase the danger of terrorism (these are two of the top stories on Townhall.com’s frontpage at the moment).

Which is what’s particularly amusing about the cultural-markers nonsense; recently, nearly everything that’s been held up as unbelievably elitist has been something that is widely available in chain supermarkets.

That’s evidence, don’t you understand, of the liberal elitist conspiracy to make our children into rootless cosmopolitans. Good, honest Americans are being decieved by the retail-restaurant-higher education-Village Voice complex into thinking that they have choices about things that are, at their root, fundamental moral issues which all true Americans would consider settled issues.

The Left is just keeping this ‘Mustard story’ alive, the Right had a chuckle and moved on.

Uhm, even that proves the general point that you’re a bunch of mouth breathing cretins. What is funny or even noteworthy about a man wanting a particular topping for the food he eats? What possible impact does it have on anyone else? Are you really claiming you can infer anything meaningfully negative about a person from this kind of preference?

I thought you guys were about choice and freedom, but apparently anyone who doesn’t eat the regulation standard hamburger the way you like it is worthy of mockery for some bizarre cultishly conformist reason that only makes sense in rightopia.

And to head off the accusation that I am unfairly seeing a trend, I present exhibits on arugula and Boehner.